Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)

A shepherd had a whelp that he fed on dead or dying sheep. One day he
saw this dog standing near a sick lamb, looking sad and seeming to weep.
The shepherd urged him to put a stop to this ostentation. 'You put on
a fine show of sympathy!' he said to the dog. 'But let's hope instead
that what you want is not going to happen after all.' The fable shows that in the same way every heir to property pretends
to sympathize with the sick man by making a hollow show of weeping.

Source:
Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura
Gibbs.
Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
NOTE: New
cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.